Talk:Well-Manicured Man
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 16, 2012. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Well-Manicured Man served as the "voice of reason" amongst The X-Files' antagonists? |
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Reviewer: Gen. Quon (talk · contribs) 01:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Seeing as how I haven't touched this article, I will review it soon.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 01:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
- This isn't really part of the review, but do you think the addition of a picture would be a good idea? Or no?
- Lede: Maybe add what the critics enjoyed about him
- Lede: I feel it's a shade bit tiny for this article. Maybe add just a bit more
- Body: Should "Conceptual History" and "Character arc" be switched to better match the lede, as well as the whole "Fictional History/Production" model that is used a majority of the articles?
- Concept: Is there any backstory to how he got his name? I alwasy found that a goofy pseudonym...
- Character arc: Add (William B. Davis) after The Smoking Man
- Reception: Italicize The A.V. Club
- Reception: "...genteel - and dangerous..." I know it's part of a quote, but I'd change the dash to a spaced en-dash, or a single em-dash
- Reception: ""It's OK, though. The 'X-Files' gave..." Again, I think it might be best to just italicize to maintain consistency. If this is wrong, then never mind
- References: Just a general question: should titles of newspaper articles et al be capitalized?
- References: On No. 4, maybe specificy somehow that its the movie you're talking about
- References: No. 9 needs a space between "pp." and "95", same with No. 11
- References: Italicize and link The A.V. Club in No. 15
Those are the only things I can really spy.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:55, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Request quote confirming suicide of character edit
I only saw the movie in a theater during its release, so I'm not claiming my memory is 100% accurate today. But my impression was that he got into the car, turned the ignition key, and the car blew up. I thought he was murdered for being a traitor to the syndicate. Suicide didn't even enter my mind at the time. I don't recall seeing him planting a bomb in his own car, a suicide note being found, or any other character discussing his death afterward, let alone as a suicide. If any of those are in the movie or a director's cut, please let me know. It is claimed that Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz, narrators of the DVD commentary discuss the character's death as a suicide. Considering that the show's two most famous taglines are "I want to believe" and "Trust no one," I would respectfully like someone to post a relevant transcript excerpt from the DVD commentary that conclusively proves it was a suicide, and not something ambiguous like, "Well, we wanted to make it look like it could be a suicide or a murder or maybe he even crawled out the passenger door before it went off." Obviously, with the actor playing him having since died in real life, there is no chance of a miraculous resurrection in a future movie. Thanks. 5Q5 (talk) 17:20, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- To quote the commentary, "then the big surprise twist was the suicide of Well-Manicured Man and the car explosion; we had different ideas on how to explode the car". It then goes on to discuss different planned visuals. They don't dwell on possibilities; it's just called a "suicide" pretty bluntly. GRAPPLE X 23:14, 14 January 2015 (UTC)